The explosion threw Xanthiana forward. The Bioman's grenade was probably intended on cutting off her escape, even though throwing herself off a cliff fifty plus feet to her doom was a poor escape plan any day of the week. She collided with the ground, knocking the wind out of her and sending her pistol skidding across the ground behind the Bioman. The Bioman stomped over to her, its veiny skin barely containing the mass of muscle underneath, she could feel the vibrations from each step, but was unable to move away before it snatched her up off the ground. It cast the grenade launcher aside prefering instead to hold her with one arm and pummel her with the other.
"Accessing Bioman files, I'll attempt to identify a weakness you can exploit Operator Roeyka." EGO chirped in, Xanthiana could see it manifested behind the blue creature.
"You're a real help." Xanthiana thought as the creature slugged her in the chest and she felt one of her ribs break. Xanthiana, not wanting to be punched into pulp, swung her legs up wrapping them around the flesh giants head. She tried to snap its neck with all the force she could muster, but only seemed to distract it enough for it to let go of her. Which brought her own head swinging down near its crotch in a position that surely would have looked comical to any one who happened to be passing by.
"Operator Roeyka attempting to snap the neck of a Bioman is a physical impossibility, the creatures bones have been reinforced specifically to prevent this." Xanthiana was about to make a sarcastic thought in response when the creature snatched her up and hurled her off its shoulder. Once again she collided with the ground, her ribs ached with pain making her accutely aware one possibly two were broken. On the plus side she found herself near her pistol and away from the cliff, on the negative side the Bioman had regained his grenade launcher and fired another one in her direction.
Xanthiana snatched her pistol up and started to make another run for it, the grenade landed behind her and exploded, she could feel a bit of the shockwave brush her back, but it was far enough away she wasn't hurt. She turned around and opened fire, emptying her entire magazine into the Bioman did nothing, she could see the pock marks from where her bullets had hit his skin, but no actual damage.
"Operator Roeyka your pistol is not of sufficient caliber to penetrate the skin of the Bioman, if you had perhaps brought a sniper rifle you would have much more success."
"Thanks EGO, any other words of wisdom?" Another grenade collided near her, Xanthiana decided fleeing was better than standing and dying and she made her way down the path away from the Bioman.
"If you strike the Bioman over his left buttock you can turn it off."
"Fantastic I'll remember to kick him in the ass next time he shows it to me." Another grenade zinged by Xanthiana's ear and blew up some rocks nearby, and knocked her to the ground. The Bioman's aim was improving and as much as Xanthiana hoped he'd run out of grenades, she knew that was not an optimal solution to her problem. She got into a shooters crouch, reloaded her pistol and took aim at the Bioman. The Bioman was a good forty feet away, but he was moving up on her and reloading his grenade launcher as he went.
"Operator Roeyka I informed you earlier this is an ill advised line of attack." EGO's voice in her head Roeyka fired, her first shot went wide, but her next hit its target dead on. The Bioman's eye exploded in a blue goo and the creature did a small drifting dance before it collapsed to the ground dead.
"Skin's tough, eyeball much less so, and with the increased skin and bone strength the bullet bounced around in his brain like a pinball EGO, update your records accordingly." Xanthiana smiled as she holstered the pistol and made her way back down the path. She had to see a Sergent about some promised supplies and get some tape for her ribs, but she was alive, and that was more than she could say for the snipers and the Bioman.
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